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Yes, This article sheds light on the stereotypical divisions in the LGBTIQ world and the labeling of people in a racist way. Masculinity as depicted and billed by a majority of gay men as the best form of an appealing character. I have seen it in many examples before not only on gay dating apps. http://www.vice.com/read/why-gay-men-need-to-be-proud-of-each-other-again How Masculine Perfection Is Destroying the Gay Community By  Patrick Cash The Monday after the Orlando shooting, Old Compton Street was full of pride. "We're here, we're queer, we have no fear," we chanted, as 49 balloons were released to remember the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting. London's LGBTQ community had come together to mourn the lives lost, and show solidarity in the face of hate. In some ways, Orlando was a wake-up call. Living in liberal London you can forget how many enemies you have across the world. Every time we click "Hide post" on an article about ho...

Originally published by the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/21/gay-lgbt-muslim-countries-middle-east Everything you need to know about being gay in Muslim countries The official fiction,  Brian Whitaker  explains, is that gay people don’t exist in the Middle East. They do – and for many of them, the attitudes of family and society are a much bigger problem than the fear of being persecuted When the US supreme court ruled in favour of same-sex marriage last year, the White House welcomed it with   rainbow-coloured lights   and many people celebrated by adding a rainbow tint to their Facebook profile. For the authorities in Saudi Arabia, though, this was cause for alarm rather than celebration, alerting them to a previously unnoticed peril in their midst. The first casualty was the privately run Talaee Al-Noor school in Riyadh which   happened to have a rooftop parapet painted with rainbow stripes. According to the kingdom...

https://www.buzzfeed.com/lesterfeder/turkey-bans-the-pride-march-in-istanbul?utm_term=.xhXxjxbal#.wbprzrKWR Istanbul Bans Region’s Largest LGBT Pride March “We are now so afraid after what happened in Orlando because we can see that it gave courage to the Islamist groups here,” a march organizer said. posted on Jun. 17, 2016, at 4:21 p.m. J. Lester Feder BuzzFeed News World Correspondent   The governor of Istanbul announced Friday that pride events scheduled to begin on Sunday have been banned. “The organization of a meeting and demonstration march on the mentioned dates will not be allowed by our governorate for the safety of our citizens, first and foremost the participants’, and for public order,” said a   press statement   from the   governor’s office . Sunday’s event would be the 13th year of Istanbul’s pride march, a festival that started with just 30 participants in 2003 and grew to tens of thousands in recent years. But last year Turkish ...